Audrey Semprun lives in the heart of Prescott with her husband and the two youngest of her six children. She has roots stretching as far as Upstate New York, where she was born, to the sun-drenched California coast, where she grew up with her parents and two older sisters and younger brother.
Writing has always been a major part of Audrey’s life, beginning with the poetry published in a local newspaper when she was a small child in grade school.
Her passion for writing led her to write her first novel – or at least a good part of her first novel. That book was never brought to completion. Upon the advice of a good friend, she threw away the ongoing manuscript. He felt she wasn’t positively portraying her new lifestyle as a Christian in her creation. Audrey was young and naďve and took to heart what her friend said and abandoned her many hours of effort, but that didn’t squelch her desire to write. She determinedly picked her pen back up and began what would be her 
first completed novel, An Angel of Mercy.
It would take Audrey a full seven years before she could get past page twelve of that manuscript. There was something preventing her from moving the story forward. She didn’t know what was wrong, or missing, or out of place, but she had a story she wanted to tell and she was determined to bring that novel to fruition.
Always an avid reader, Audrey scanned numerous writing magazines, searching for that breakthrough to pull those words successfully out of her mind and onto the page. In the process she also inadvertently sharpened her knowledge base and writing techniques. Through her research and study, she found the missing link, the ‘voice’ needed to tell the story. She did what she needed to do, which was to discard those faulty first pages and start the novel over. From there the words flowed out of her mind and onto the page, amazing her as the story took on a life of its own.
After completing the rough draft came several more years of trial and error necessary to turn that initial manuscript into a cohesive and well-structured novel. Through that experience, she discovered what she needed to do to keep track of her characters and to maintain consistency in the story. She then took that experience and used it to complete her subsequent second and third novels, Angel of Insight and Destiny’s Child, completing the trilogy.
A writing competition spurred Audrey to write a memoir. It seemed a daunting task to write 50,000 words in thirty days, and only by writing what she knew could she could tackle such a challenge. EVEN IN SILENCE, The Journey of a Lady Preacher was the result of that writing competition. A website offered all of the “winners” who successfully completed their 50,000-word challenge a free book. Audrey went on the website and created a cover and formatted her memoir into her first book.
From there, Audrey produced several books, including the novel trilogy, another book of
memoirs, Follow Me Down, A PATH OF PEACE, and a hard-back coffee table book of poetry and devotionals titled And the Glory. Last Fall Audrey took her creative and editorial skills a step farther by producing a book of poetry and short reflections for a friend. Majesty by Diana Edwards is Audrey’s first publication under her ministry / editorial umbrella at Joyful Noiz Ministries; a name she has carried all of her writing career.
Audrey’s plans to become an independent publisher are integrating into her life at a slow but steady pace with her sponsorship of The First Annual Rogue Bud Writing Competition, which she is judging after the September 15, 2010 contest deadline. The winner of that contest will be published by Joyful Noiz Ministries, AKA, Rose Audrey. She has yet to get involved with the marketing and distribution end of publishing, but is edging her way closer to that eventual goal.
And what else is Audrey up to? She’s busy writing a new speculative fiction novel titled The Back Track Conspiracies, which is greatly stretching her imagination. She also has a couple of other projects in progress: one is a book of short stories, ON A RAMBLE On a Bright and Sunny Day: Mostly True Stories, Including Creepy, Creepy Spider; a collection of scripture chain reference stories, parables, and meditations titled CROOKED PLACES STRAIGHT: Straight Talk about Hard Places; and to keep heading in her Independent Publishing aspirations she is currently working on the initial manuscript of a friend’s memoir, Darkest Before the Dawn.
Audrey’s dedication, determination, and drive is what keeps her moving forward to make her dreams of becoming a successful author and publisher a reality.